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Show HN: Goodbye Old Editor – Reinventing coding with the cloud
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#32Error 500 on redirect back from Github login.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you sure that you like the idea of in-browser editors? The only feature that I see as useful is the "zero deployment/any device" and I can't imagine that feature coming in handy very often. What else do you like about them? If you like vim or emacs - the Cons seem to far outweigh the one Pro that I can see for these types of editors: - Online only. - Client and service back-end usually not open source. - Far less…
Well, if everything else was equal and all features implemented the "zero deployment/any device" would be a great thing, no? As I said I like the idea, not current implementations. Personally I would use it - and even if it had only a fraction of functionality I mentioned - for remote pair programming. It's so hard to make people feel comfortable with Emacs/Vim+screen/tmux! As an aside, I think that an online editor…
Well actually all the online editors have awesome scripting capability via javascript:)
> - rectangular selection and operations (v: Ctrl-v, e: C-x r ... or rect-mark)
Ace (cloud9 editor which friendCode uses) have pretty good support for sublime text style multiple selections, (with ctrl-alt-arrow keys) so emacs or vim style should be easy to implement. The main problem is that there are oly a few people who use online editors, so most of this things are not implemented yet.
Re: Show HN: Goodbye Old Editor – Reinventing coding with the cloud
#35While running the sample nodejs code, it opened a virtual terminal with the message "Building application in a new virtual machine" - Are you actually creating a new virtual machine for every app that is run? Isn't that resource-consuming?
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#36I just wanted to let you guys know that there are a few issues with the execution system due to the load we got from HN.
We're on it right now.
Re: Show HN: Goodbye Old Editor – Reinventing coding with the cloud
#37While running the sample nodejs code, it opened a virtual terminal with the message "Building application in a new virtual machine" - Are you actually creating a new virtual machine for every app that is run? Isn't that resource-consuming?
Yes, each app is run in a new virtual machine.
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#38What is different about this from Cloud9 (genuinely interested in the answer)?
First of all Cloud9 is a very good solution, they are the initial pioneers in cloud coding, and they built some good technology that we contribute to (and use small parts of). We really try to focus on simplicity and extensibility. We're trying a few different approaches, one of them being providing a whole network besides the code editor itself, so people can share plugins, build teams, find freelancers (that kind o…
Thanks, that does answer it! Good luck :)
Re: Show HN: Goodbye Old Editor – Reinventing coding with the cloud
#39Just curious, are you guys building the FriendCode app by using FriendCode?
Re: Show HN: Goodbye Old Editor – Reinventing coding with the cloud
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you sure that you like the idea of in-browser editors? The only feature that I see as useful is the "zero deployment/any device" and I can't imagine that feature coming in handy very often. What else do you like about them? If you like vim or emacs - the Cons seem to far outweigh the one Pro that I can see for these types of editors: - Online only. - Client and service back-end usually not open source. - Far less…
I believe there are advantages and disadvantages to cloud based solutions, objectively the advantages that we offer are the following: - Easy setup and update (all you need to do is signup) (good for beginners) - Realtime remote pair programming - You no longer need to setup execution environments on your computer locally. We're definitely far from perfect. However I do think that there's interesting things to do wit…
Easy setup and realtime pair programming are great. Auto-updates are good, but only if I like the updates :) Forced updates could be annoying and potentially catastrophic if handled wrongly, breaking users' workflow.
A pre-setup environment can be nice if it offers the amount of control that is necessary to accomplish the developer's goals.
My totally unqualified opinion on your venture is that you can be successful if you pursue partnerships with places like Heroku et. al. as well as offering it as a stand-alone service. Good luck!